Civil society and politics in Central Asia / edited by Charles E. Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziegler, Charles E., editor .

Series:

Asia in the new millenium.

Asia in the new millenium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society--Asia, Central.

Civil society.

Islam and civil society--Asia, Central.

Islam and civil society.

Public administration--Asia, Central.

Public administration.

Asia, Central--Politics and government--1991-.

Asia, Central.

Central Asia.

Politics and government.

Political science.

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

Summary:

The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. In Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia, a group of prominent scholars assesses the area's manifold problems and emerging potential, examining the often uneasy relationship between these states and the societies they govern. This in-depth study demonstrates the fascinating cultural complexity and diversity of Central Asia. Small, landlocked, and surrounded by larger powers, the nations in the region have become adept at playing their neighbors against each other in order to maximize their own abilities to maneuver. The essays in this volume look beyond the surface of Central Asian politics to discover the forces for political change and continuity that are at work in this critical region of the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Social capital and development of civil society in Central Asia : a path dependency perspective / Andrey A. Kazantsev

Islamization and civil society in Central Asia : religion as substrate in conflict management and social stability / Reuel R. Hanks

Islamic revival and civil society in Kazakhstan / Dilshod Achilov

Negotiating social activism : national minority associations in Kazakhstan, or the other face of "civil society" / Marlene Laruelle

Nonstate health care provision in Central Asia : cooperative or competitive? / Erica Johnson

Service and public satisfaction : from functions to services : the case of Kazakhstan / Ken Charman and Rakhymzhan Assangaziyev

Society in a period of transition : the perspective from the state / Ruslan Kazkenov and Charles E. Ziegler

In good times and hard times : civil society roles in Kyrgyzstan today / Charles Buxton

Society in chains : the dynamics of sociopolitical relations in Turkmenistan / Charles J. Sullivan

Bridging the divide between neoliberal and communal civil society in Tajikistan / Sabine Freizer

State, civil society actors, and political instabilities in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan : the changing international context / Graeme P. Herd and Maxim Ryabkov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813150772

0813150779

OCLC:

876686107